Poetic Neighborhood

I stood in the neighborhood

And looked around

To really see what was

Lost and what was found

So I purposely picked

This lot that I got 

Because it sat

A little ways in the back

Off the side on the cul de sac 

I now was thinking

Back 

At what the 

Builder told me

When he sold me

This little tract

Of  land

Understand that if I

Blend in with the

Community and

Use the same 

Hues as they do

They will not notice you

If that is truly your goal

Than make your soul plain

That way you won't need

To complain

Cause everything

Will be the same

Now I am wondering will

They tolerate

The way I decorate

Although the main

Theme is hate

I guess they relate

To a degree

Cause there

Is hatred and bigotry

Somewhere in humanity

So I am struggling to

Find the write

Theme in me

But I don't know

How to be free

Outside my dark

Windows

I see

Neighbors 

Being neighborly 

Something I

Have no desire

To be?

I see the parades

Going up and

Down the street

With their backs

To my cul de sac

I don't open my door

So they have never seen 

My decor

As my metaphors

Are hidden by the 

Similes that 

"Like" to squat on my floor

I sigh because

They want to bring cakes

And pies

But I  

Tell them lies

That if I eat

All of their sweets

That I would meet

My maker in the sky

As most people

Are sympathetic

To diabetics

But they don't need to know

That much about

Rico

I sigh....

Some poets

Are brave

They come to the 

Edge of the street

And wave

Trying to ignore

The graves

Or pretend

They don't hear

The moans that come

From within and

From the bones

I own

As I try to

Bury them deep

So the neighbors

Don't hear the

Banshees weep

I read.......

Their muse

Always make

The news

With glowing reviews

When people

That look like me

Don't usually write

Poetry

They are 

Useless rappers

That are mockeries 

On the boxes of life

With nothing profound

To write

I guess in the end

You get in

Where you fit in

One day that will

Be understood

As I try to live

In this 

Poetic Neighborhood